A Spring property that is inherited from an abstract Spring bean is not marked as a Spring property in the Java source. Example: <bean id="abstractBean" abstract="true"> <property name="testProperty" value="Hello World!"/> </bean> <bean id="testBean" class="test.TestBean" parent="abstractBean"> </bean> When viewing the TestBean class, you will see the class marked as a Spring bean, but testProperty is not marked as a Spring configured property. Note: The attached project will display this and several other bugs. IDEA-15847 IDEA-15846 IDEA-15844 IDEA-15843